
Book 3, Chapter 1 (p. 626)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces (1980, posthumous), Ch. 2, opening line
Book 3, Chapter 1 (p. 626)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)
“Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind.”
Book III, Chapter 1, p. 336
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: What is the essence of our God? The struggle for freedom. In the indestructible darkness a flaming line ascends and emblazons the march of the Invisible. What is our duty? To ascend with this blood-drenched line.
Whatever rushes upward and helps God to ascend is good. Whatever drags downward and impedes God from ascending is evil.
All virtues and all evils take on a new value. They are freed from the moment and from earth, they exist completely within man, before and after man, eternally.
For the essence of our ethic is not the salvation of man, who varies within time and space, but the salvation of God, who within a wide variety of flowing human forms and adventures is always the same, the indestructible rhythm which battles for freedom.
We, as human beings, are all miserable persons, heartless, small, insignificant. But within us a superior essence drives us ruthlessly upward.
From within this human mire divine songs have welled up, great ideas, violent loves, an unsleeping assault full of mystery, without beginning or end, without purpose, beyond every purpose.
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)
Source: The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic (Revised Edition) 1977, Chapter One, Kubeiagenesis, p. 1
Source: Globalization - A Basic Text (2010), Chapter 6, Global Political Structures and Processes, p. 149
Source: 1950s, National images and international systems, 1959, p. 131
Book 4, Chapter 2 “Dark Revelations” (p. 582)
The Elric Cycle, Stormbringer (1965)
“To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.”
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)